Coming November 20th. . .

Liz Mackie (FAMEPUNK) returns with a fast-moving social comedy that reaches new heights of craft and romance. . .a twisted morality tale laced with supernatural horror.

Venturing deep into the Allegheny Mountains to fill the top job at a notorious old private asylum, Cathy Viceroy, DSW expects to be greeted by outmoded facilities and obsolete methods—after all, it’s 1998 and “Binville” still isn’t online. But no amount of data could explain what else she’ll find going on inside the vast place her hostile new colleagues call Crazy Town. And no degree of training could offer preparation for what the alluring state social worker is about to meet by the woodland road along the way, in an encounter that will prove transformative to say the least.

Along with offbeat insights into America’s helping professions, this vividly realized novel also offers a trio of exciting love stories—one inter-species, and one featuring an imaginary Anne Heche role. Here, animal lovers and nature lovers will find themselves portrayed as sympathetic protagonists. Big fans of fantasy and the Baroque will find satisfying portrayals of witches, cryptids, and compulsory performances of J. S. Bach’s Magnificat; while maturer Y. A. consumers can thrill to the first kiss of a new teen supercouple. In fact, except for those who frighten too easily, Marabelle, The Beast of Crazy Town has something for every reader to enjoy.